Holy Spiritblade

Flavor:
If the Paladin's spirit really is so wise, how'd he end up getting trapped inside his own sword, huh?

History:
As Eyris Bloodaxe explored an Ancient Library, she started to hear a voice whispering to her in her mind, accompanied with a soothing sensation and an essence of Holy Light.

Following the voice, Eyris discovered the ceremonial Spiritblade hidden behind a bookshelf, allowing her to communicate with the voice within.

''When questioned, the Blade revealed itself to contain the spirit of a Paladin named Tobias, who had fallen inside the tower many years ago while fighting an ancient evil. When Tobias fell inside the cursed tower, his soul was doomed to spend eternity in the library, trapped inside his own lost sword. Since then, it had attempted to draw another Servant of the Light to find him.''

''Tobias pleaded Eyris to bring him out of the tower to free him, and in return he would offer her advice and a Paladin's counsel for the rest of her travels. Eyris scoffed and said she was not interested in a talking sword, considering to instead have the blade broken at a forge.''

When Aldoreah later suggested trading Eyris' Spiritblade for her Sentry Owl's Eye, Eyris still opted to keep the blade, perhaps having grown some sort of attachment to it?

After a month's time, Eyris still kept her sword, and communed with it. She learned that Tobias had lost his friends and family to a curse, slain by a Flesh-Monster after finding a Cursed Ring. Quickly realizing the consequences, Eyris used this information to warn her party, starting their journey to the Blackrock Mountain to destroy the ring, and free Tobias' spirit from the curse in the process.

After destroying the Ring in Blackrock Mountain, Eyris' sword stopped glowing, the party saddened by Tobias' apparentt disappearance after being freed from the curse.

Though, later on, Tobias revealed himself to still be following Eyris and his former sword, taken on the form of a spirit Guardian of Ancient Kings.

Mechanics:
The spirit inhabiting the blade, Tobias, counts as an NPC following the party. Though he has no stats or health, he has a Paladin's insight to any situation he may be asked about, from detecting dark magics, evil motivations, or even explaining the history of events around the party.

As Tobias is still entrapped in his sword, these are all the mechanics the Party is aware of as of yet.